Hi folks,
A follow-up re OCR problems in Adobe. The bug I described in Acrobat 8 Professional is the "Contains Renderable Text" error message that prevents OCR of certain files. If it occurs for you see this page for why it happens, and a work-around (not practical for large files):
http://acrobatsupport.com/document-contains-renderable-text/
It is apparently mostly fixed in a Acrobat 8.1 Update:
http://blogs.adobe.com/acrolaw/2007/06/acrobat_81_update_fix_for_render.html
and there are later updates.
Geoff
>>> On 24/04/2009 at 4:05 p.m., "Geoff Read" <g.read from niwa.co.nz> wrote:
> A couple of comments just on practical usage matters of BHL. My experience
> is that if one uses the current facility to download just a selected group of
> pages the resulting pdf created lacks the OCR recognised text of the complete
> file, and cannot be subsequently OCR'd in Adobe Acrobat professional (at
> least in the v8 version of it I have - maybe later version handle it ok) - one
> gets an error message that the text is already recognised. (There is an
> option to include OCR in the download but this just gives a separate copy of
> the text, not integrated with the original image).
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Geoff Read <g.read from niwa.co.nz>
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